Rational Response Squad Alerts
Win an autographed copy of Radar Magazine with RRS!
Submitted by Anonymous on October 16, 2007 - 6:00am.SIDENOTE: If you upload your video to Revver instead of youtube, you'll get extra credit points. Post revver uploads, as a response in this thread.
OTHER HOT ISSUES:
FIREFOX USERS I need your attention! You need these two files now!
Submitted by Sapient on October 15, 2007 - 1:28am.https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5362
Sparky is a free FireFox browser plugin built by Alexa, that accompanies you as you surf, providing useful information about the sites you visit without interrupting your Web browsing.
* Learn about Website Traffic Trend information -- Is this site getting more popular, or less popular?
* ALLOW OUR SITE TO GET CREDIT WITH YOUR TRAFFIC!
* Get detailed traffic information including Reach and Rank -- How does this site's traffic compare to other sites on the Web?
* Surf more efficiently with Related Links for each page -- If I like this site, are there others that I might want to visit?
Plus, as you surf around the Web with Sparky you are helping to make the Web a better place for everybody by contributing to the traffic information that Alexa provides.
Works with: Firefox: 2.0 – 2.0.0.*
ALSO GET FASTERFOX! I use it and I guarantee it will speed your browsing up a little
Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.
WOTMWATCHDOG.ORG EXPOSE
Submitted by RationalRespons... on October 14, 2007 - 5:02pm.Over the next few weeks we'll be helping to inform the public like never before of the incredible hypocrisy, dishonest, and craptastic tactics of Way of the Master.
If you dislike the tactics, ignorance, and dishonesty that exudes from the banana boys (Kirk Cameron, Ray Comfort, Todd Friel) please repost this message or download the promo video and upload it to your video sharing account (like your youtube acct). You can also embed this video on your myspace page for a few days to help raise awareness. www.wotmwatchdog.org is filled with content that exposes the crew.
Rational Response Squad Movie Mission Statement/Interview
Submitted by Sapient on October 13, 2007 - 5:16am.Here is an interview I did, when I turned the cameras on our film crew....
Here is the mission statement written by the producer, Josh Austin. Keep in mind, this was written in the preplanning stages, there have been some deviations in the plan since then. Get ready to be moved and excited about this movie...
Christian-Fascism Awareness Week
Submitted by kellym78 on October 11, 2007 - 7:44pm.http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2007/10/christian-fasci.html
So the week after next, campuses across America will be treated to Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, since there is not enough awareness, it turns out, about Islam and fascism. The event is the brainchild of well-known pathological liar and enemy of academic freedom, David Horowitz. But we shouldn't pre-judge it on that basis, even if others will.
Margaret Downey takes big steps forward
Submitted by DowneyRottweiler on October 6, 2007 - 3:07am.Segment 4: An Atheist Cold War Thaws?
Matt Cherry, executive director of the Institute for Humanist Studies, speaks in the studio with Margaret Downey, new president of the Atheist Alliance International. Downey explains why Atheist Alliance International, and American Atheists, the two largest U.S.-based atheist organizations, hold their annual conferences on the same day. Downey says she favors moving the AAI conference date to foster more opportunities for the two groups to collaborate.
Ellen Johnson Responds to "The End of Atheism"
Submitted by Anonymous on October 4, 2007 - 11:13am.http://www.humaniststudies.org/enews/?id=317&article=1
"ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term, it admits of no paltering and no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech."
-- Chapman Cohen
From the President of the organization of people formerly known as "Atheists":
Sam Harris did not set out to be an Atheist spokesperson. Like Dr. Michael Newdow, the media thrust them both into that spotlight and they became defacto spokespersons.
Separation of Church and State, huh?
Submitted by Anonymous on October 4, 2007 - 11:00am.http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-9/1190529501310280.xml&coll=1
Vitter earmarks funds for religious group
Nonprofit supports creationist education
Sunday, September 23, 2007
By Bill Walsh
WASHINGTON -- Sen. David Vitter, R-La., earmarked $100,000 in a spending bill for a Louisiana Christian group that has challenged the teaching of Darwinian evolution in the public school system and to which he has political ties.
The money is included in the labor, health and education financing bill for fiscal 2008 and specifies payment to the Louisiana Family Forum "to develop a plan to promote better science education."
Ayaan Hirsi Ali loses bodyguards and returns to the Netherlands
Submitted by Anonymous on October 4, 2007 - 10:49am.http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,509067,00.html
Former Dutch legislator and Islam critic Hirsi Ali has been under state-funded protection since extremists began threatening her life in 2004. Now the Dutch government has said it won't pay for her protection if she continues to live and work in the United States.
Writer and former Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali returned to the Netherlands on Monday after living in the United States and working for a prominent conservative think tank. The move came after the Dutch government said it would no longer pay for her security needs in Washington.
God damn Christians bitchin bout blasphemy
Submitted by RationalRespons... on September 27, 2007 - 2:30am.Sarah Silverman has sex with God.
(this is technically a story from March, but thanks to Hovind... we're talkin bout it.)
